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1905 NarTHorst visited several scientific institutions in England and 
on the continent, in company with a Swedish architect, for the purpose 
of obtaining information in preparation for the new building, toward 
the erection of which parliament subsequently voted £140,000. Three 
years later he wrote, “I am happy to have founded this museum for 
the sake of paleobotany and my successors.” 
It was my good fortune on two occasions to spend several days in 
the old museum with Natuorst, and it will always be the small and 
crowded rooms in the heart of Stockholm that some of us will remember 
with feelings of admiration, gratitude, and affection. The accompany- 
ing photograph, taken by my colleague W. HanisHaw Tuomas, and 
regarded by Natuorst as the best of his portraits, shows the director 
at work in his private room. Other museums may be larger and more 
imposing, but none contain as many treasures or form a more impres- 
sive monument to the life-long devotion. of a conscientious and whole- 
hearted student of nature. 
NATHORST was universally regarded as a master in paleobotany; 
a geologist of the first rank; an Arctic explorer whose extended geological 
and geographical researches in Spitzbergen, Bear Island, King Charles 
Land, Ellesmere Land, and other regions in the course of several expe- 
ditions, notably that of 1898-1899 of which he was the scientific leader, 
were fruitful in results of the greatest importance; and an expert 
systematic botanist. He was an exceptionally all-round naturalist, in 
whom were happily combined sound learning, breadth of view, and a 
natural modesty. Although seriously handicapped by his almost 
complete deafness, he was intensely happy in his work. He spoke 
English and German with surprising fluency and correctness, and wrote 
in both these languages and in French. In one of his letters he said, 
“Tt is easier for me to write in German than in English, but I think it 
would have been better if I had published my papers in English, as 
paleobotany is now (1908) chiefly and with best results studied in 
England and America.” us 
In 1872, at the age of twenty-one, he paid his first visit to England, 
when he met Sir CHARLES LYELL, whose Principles of Geology awakened 
his love for that science. In 1907 he came as a delegate to the cen- 
tenary of the Geological Society of London, and in 1909 to the Darwin 
Celebrations at Cambridge, a visit which he thoroughly enjoyed in 
company with Professor ZEILLER of Paris, of whom he afterward spoke 
as “our dear, noble, and lamented friend.”” NATHORST never visited 
the United States. In 1914 he wrote, “I really should like to study 
